JAPAN: A RECORD IN COLOUR BY MORTIMER MENPES, Transcribed by Dorothy Menpes.

First Edition, early printing. With 100 beautiful plates in colour from the author's paintings. Tall 8vo, original blue cloth, the upper cover and spine with gilt lettering and a stylized gilt Chrysanthemum, this within a gray art nouveau framework, t.e.g. xiv, 207, 4 ads, pp. A fine copy of this scarce Adam and Charles Black book. The cloth fresh and clean with bright gilt, the plates all bright and fine, the text-block beautifully preserved, a lovely copy.

Edizione: a very lovely and scarce a. & c. black travel book on japan. menpes has combined the soft, delicacy of japanese art with a western sense of form and color. the result are these one hundred beautiful, colour plates of old world japan. the accompanying text is an artist?s reflections of the country with a special emphasis on its life and art. this sets it apart from the publisher's other books on japan, which focused primarily on landscapes, views, and gardens. in these paintings menpes richly conveys much more about the peoples of japan; their lives and culture.